Monthly Archives: November 2015

The EU-commission confirms in a press release that standard contracts issued by the EU will replace the International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles after it was declared invalid by the European Court of Justice early October this year. The agreement has for over fifteen years governed the transfer of personal data …

Almost a year after Hong Kong witnessed pro- democracy street protests by its students; they had to face another battle online against hackers sponsored by China using the latest techniques one has never seen. This time hackers have come up with something extraordinary: they have planted malware on file- sharing …

Activists using the social media platform 4chan has launched a relatively innocent attack against ISIS in an attempt to mock and humiliate the extremist militant group. After the hacktivist group Anonymous declared their own war against ISIS there has been a huge number of groups and themes created to mock …

Based on the various reports of 2015, cybercrime has hit so bad that it is estimated to cost $500 Billion. The study by World Economic Forum says that every year a majority of cybercrime goes undetected. By 2020, the cyber security industry is expected to worth $170 Billion globally. Surveys …

An Australian teenage hacker, Dylan Wheeler is able to flee easily despite having been ordered to take his passport into custody. This has raised serious questions about border security. Dylan Wheeler, from Perth, was only 17 when he was accused of being a part of a hacking group who hacked …

According to the international news agency, Reuters in London, the British police have stated that there has been the fifth arrest of an 18- year- old youth from Wales. The youth is said to be involved in the cyber attack on the telecom company Talk Talk. The British police went …

A number of Dell laptops are believed to have been shipped with an SSL certificate which is constantly generating security concerns. The SSL certificate comes preinstalled on the affected laptops and is misused by the hackers to spy on web traffic. This certificate is known as eDellRoot. When informed about …

Starwood Hotels and Resorts is looking into the guests’ payment-card data frauds after reports of infiltration of their payment system started doing rounds. Meanwhile, Marriott has issued warnings about the phone scams. Earlier this week Starwood had announced about Marriott’s intention to acquire them for a whopping sum of $12.2 …

Microsoft has recently acquired three Israeli cyber security companies in a bid to compete with other names in the cyber security sector of the tech market, Forbes reports. Over the past year, Microsoft has invested big in cyber security firms. It has acquired three Israeli cyber security firms, namely Adallom, …

Around tens of thousands of Twitter handles, supporting ISIS, have been brought down by the Ghost Security Group. It would have been nearly impossible to track down such twitter accounts without the help of these hacktivists. Ghost Security Group is a rouge hacker organization, consisting of several computer specialists and …